Category: News

The Wii U launch in North America was a great success for Nintendo: the console is practically unavailable in most retailers and prices on ebay are skyrocketing, with consoles selling for over 500$, well over the retail suggested price. With the holiday season almost upon us a stock shortage could really hurt potential Christmas sales…

2013 looks to be a big year for video games. The Wii U should have captivated the hearts of gamer’s everywhere, or fail miserably and the PS3 and Xbox 360 will be looking to crank out a few smash hits before the next generation hits the world. So what games are you most excited for…

Hitman absolution, the much waited extension of the dormant Hitman series will not have a online pass to accesses the contracts mode, instead it will be free for all. The contracts mode is a create your own assassination missions from the single player missions already present and you challenge your friends to beat the revised…

Despite being so thoroughly marketed as a pre-order bonus for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, and undoubtedly fast becoming a fan favorite, the multiplayer map Nuketown 2025 will no longer be playable in the game’s multiplayer playlists. This means that the map will only have been playable for a week before being removed. Previously,…

Telltale Games has crafted a fantastic experience with their episodic Walking Dead series. The finale of the first season arrives tomorrow and will wrap up the loose threads that are left in the story. After all the insanity that took place near the end of the last episode, it will be interesting to see how…

As it was expected, new details about Grand Theft Auto 5 are constantly coming in: ever since the second trailer reveal and Gameinformer’s big coverage of the game, there’s not a day lately that doesn’t bring in new Grand Theft Auto 5 news. And it’s Gameinformer once again the source of the news: writer Matt…

While GTA V has only been officially announced as heading to two systems next spring, the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3, Rockstar Vice President Dan Houser has stated that GTA V may find its way to Wii U and PC in the future. In an interview with IGN, he was asked why GTA V…

Microsoft has announced that a Karaoke app will be added to the Xbox 360 this holiday. The app will be powered by the Karaoke Channel and will boast 8,000 different playable songs, which don’t actually need to be downloaded to play, as they can apparently be streamed straight to the console. The pricing structure is…

Like a digital Genghis Khan, Major League Gaming has brought together the disparate tribes of eSports providers to fly under one flag. On November 15, MLG announced via their website that henceforth they would be collaborating with ESL and DreamHack in order to “unify and align…[their] eSports activity on a global basis”. They state the purpose…

A Neogaf user claims to have accidentally hacked the Miiverse with little effort. He stumbled upon some sort of survey hinting at a new Yoshi game, before discovering the actual Wii U debug menu, where he was able to view otherwise hidden sub-folders “including Yoshi’s Island Wii U and Soul Hackers” and more generic ones…

The new Nintendo console is finally available in North America: when booting up the console gamers were welcomed by a mandatory firmware update. The update is quite big too, around 5gb and it may need quite some time to download. While it was already announced no one expected the update to be mandatory and so…

If, like me, you are intrigued by a good old fashioned mystery then you may want to check out the new website that Sega has launched. When you visit the page, you are shown a picture of what looks like a couple hundred birds flying above and descending upon a big city that is apparently…